Barycentric coordinates are functions on a polygon, one for each vertex, whose values are coefficients that provide an expression of a point of the polygon as a convex combination of the vertices. Wachspress barycentric ...

The objective of this dissertation is to identify both individual and contextual characteristics that may affect the wage earnings of Chinese in the U.S. labor market. The major individual characteristics include education, ...

Black male teachers comprise less than two percent of the teachers of color in education nationwide and even fewer than that teach in special education. There exists a paucity of research literature on the “invisible tax” ...

Organizational reputation has been shown to influence important organizational outcomes. As a result, a large body of literature has devoted significant attention to organizational reputation. Findings have shown organizational ...

The effects of microbubbles injection in the boundary layer of a turbulent channel flow are investigated. Electrolysis demonstrated to be an effective method to produce microbubbles with an average diameter of 30 ??m and ...

This dissertation confirms war as the zenith of aesthetic experience and demonstrates the pragmatic nature of war through explication of John Dewey’s aesthetic philosophy. Likewise, the coherency of Carl von Clausewitz’s ...

In Kant's critical system, war plays a dual role as a catalyst for cultural development and as a moral evil to be overcome. In this thesis, I explore the geopolitical language of domain and territory used in Kant's third ...

The short-term temperature-response of dark respiration may be altered by climate warming through temperature acclimation; however the role of drought in influencing thermal acclimation is not known. We hypothesized that ...

A construction site is a risky workplace with constant movement of heavy vehicles on ground and cranes overhead, and simultaneous construction work at multiple levels along with significantly high noise levels. Over the ...

This dissertation focuses on Bayesian sampling, Bayesian evidence estimation and supervised functional principle component analysis (PCA) and the corresponding theoretical, computational and application challenges. In ...